We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.

There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

When we rely on our own strength, God’s opportunities become inaccessible to us

The best model of a cat is another cat..., specially the same cat.

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

Though we must never think to learn above our Bible, as long as we are here in this world, yet we must still be getting forward in it.

ATLANTA NIGHTS not only changed my life, it changed my mind. An astonishing read, worth it at half the price.

I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.